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We asked for your views on Leicester City and things that are not being talked about at the club but should be.

Here are some of your comments:

Nick: Keep players who want to play for this club. Need to get rid of a lot of dead wood.

Jim: I would suggest they try hard to get rid of several players who are not up to standard. Van Nistelrooy's idea of promoting the young players is sound and a really good team could be developed over the next few seasons. Keep Vardy. Give him a job at the club. Perhaps as a forwards coach. They must eventually come back to the Premier League but as a far better team and better organised.

Ian: Leicester City has been supplying the Premier League with some of the best players and sold them to the top six for years. A state-of-the-art training facility and a dream come true history. Is it time to sell the club to investors who can continue Leicester City's legacy for years to come?

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In the latest episode of BBC World Service's World Football podcast, we bring together two sports not usually associated with each other - football and snooker.

That's because four-time world snooker champion Mark Selby's career has been strongly linked to his hometown football club, Leicester City.

He became world champion for the second time on the night of the Foxes' iconic Premier League title win in 2016.

As he prepares to try to add another world title to his collection at the World Championship at the Crucible in Sheffield, he has been telling John Bennett about his footballing passion.

Listen now on BBC Sounds

Leicester's fate is almost sealed and their Premier League survival hopes are hanging by a thread.

But is there something else that is slipping under the radar? What is the one thing - good or bad - nobody is talking about in relation to Leicester?

Let us know your thoughts here

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Leicester City academy graduate Kasey McAteer says the Foxes are "just looking forward now" after falling 17 points adrift from Premier League safety, but reassured supporters that the players "won't stop trying or fighting" this season.

Speaking to BBC Radio Leicester after making his first start since Leicester City's 4-0 defeat to Newcastle United in December, McAteer said: "I haven't played for a long time and I've been very frustrated, but I haven't stopped working hard and I've been putting it in day-in day-out in training.

"It's times like this where you can tell you have worked hard in training because you can feel it. I felt a little bit of cramp in my calf towards the end of the game, but I think that's because I ran myself into the ground.

"I did everything I could out there on the pitch - and hopefully I keep getting given the opportunity.

"As a team, we are just looking forward now. What has happened in the past is in the past, so we are just looking forward. We can build on today and then what will be, will be. We won't stop trying or fighting.

"We've had results this season that we cannot let happen again, such as the Tottenham away win and then going to Everton where we were beaten. We cannot let that be a thing that keeps happening to Leicester.

"We need to keep looking forward and putting the hard work in, then we can see where we are at the end of the season. We will just keep trying our best."

Listen to the full interview on BBC Sounds

Kate Blakemore
Fan writer

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"We scored a goal, we scored a goal, we scored a goal..."

Such was the elation at scoring our first goal in 758 minutes at Brighton, this chant went on and on.

It has been a long-running debate among Leicester fans as to whether this squad was ever good enough to stay up. From the performance on Saturday, one could argue that Leicester really should have been in the mix and looking to finish near the top of the bottom six, had we got our house in order.

The stark fact, though, is that our house has not found any kind of "order" all season and this performance has come far too late and far too infrequently.

Changing managers so early in the season is a high-risk strategy but such is the financial precipice with modern football that these hasty decisions are made.

Leicester have had pace and width available all season, but Saturday was one of the few times that these attributes were utilised with the correct personnel, coupled with the return of Ricardo Pereira to his inverted full-back role at 61 minutes - the key ingredient of our promotion season.

Ricardo has not been available under Ruud van Nistelrooy because of injury, yet Steve Cooper made the decision to exclude Pereira continually during his tenure. Ruud has not really played with legitimate wingers or an attacking midfield (Patson Daka being the makeshift right winger in recent games), so were we ever giving ourselves a chance with these two managers? Hindsight is 20:20.

To achieve survival, your available players must play in the correct positions to try to force an attack in this increasingly possession-based game. We have experienced square pegs, round holes; tactics that are the antithesis of where our strengths lie.

But I am glad we finally had something to cheer about and some glimpses that the spirit of Leicester is still there. Just in time for the Championship.

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